model e controller laravel

Question

I've this this model City.php in app\Models

<?php

namespace App\Models;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class City extends Model
{
    //
}

and this CityController.php

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use App\Models\City;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;

class CityController extends Controller
{
    /**
     * Display a listing of the resource.
     *
     * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
     */
    public function index()
    {
        //
      $cities = City::OrderBy('city_code')->get();
      return view('testcities',compact('cities'));
    }

but i get back this error in laravel:

Error Class 'App\Models\City' not found

Answer 1

You should rename cities.php to Cities.php . But based on Laravel best practices Model names MUST be in singular form with its first letter in uppercase. So it's better to create model name with City rather than Cities .

Answer 2

Please make sure your class is named Cities.php . You can also try to run composer dump-autoload to tell Composer to read all your classes again.